Pfeiffer Library: Natural Science: Search Options

Find Library Materials

Are you looking for a specific database? Try our A to Z list.

These library provided databases are your best bets! Again, make sure you know your university credentials to utilize these resources off-campus.

ACS Journals This link opens in a new window
Journals from the American Chemical Society, 1879-the present.
Applied Science & Technology Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides professional and technical society journals, specialized subject periodicals, buyers’ guides, directories and conference proceedings.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus This link opens in a new window
Citations and full-text of articles covering biology and agriculture.
BIOSIS Previews This link opens in a new window
Index and abstracts to international journal articles in biological and medical research. BIOSIS Previews also covers books and meetings.
PubChem This link opens in a new window
Provides information on the biological activities of small molecules from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and more than 30,000 books.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and cited references for articles in the sciences.
Platform access - subdatabases listed

These free web resources may also prove useful.

arXiv This link opens in a new window
Open access to over 750,000 e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
National Library of Medicine makes available this version for free, and contains a collection of newer articles that are not yet indexed and included in other versions of MEDLINE. The link listed here will allow access to TU subscriptions from PubMed.

Cell Image Library
The Cell Image Library™ is a freely accessible, easy-to-search, public repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms, showcasing cell architecture, intracellular functionalities, and both normal and abnormal processes.
ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 43 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.
National Science Foundation
NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences.
National Science Foundation
NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences.
PubChem
PubChem is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative.
Science.gov
Provides a search of over 60 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 2200 scientific Websites.

Sometimes finding the right keywords can be a struggle. Here is a list of a few ways your can start your search.

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Research at Pfeiffer Library
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